Adopt a Dog or Cat in Delhi NCR
4 organisations in Delhi NCR, read from their own sites. Ring before you visit, because adoption hours and intake rules vary more than anything else here.
Last checked 2026-08-09
Where to adopt in Delhi NCR
- Sanjay Gandhi Animal Care CentreshelterAdoptionRescueSterilisation
Described on its own site as Delhi's largest all animal shelter, housing over 3,000 animals at a time with a 24 hour hospital and an animal birth control programme run through its operation theatre.
their site - Friendicoes SECAshelterAdoptionRescueSterilisation
Friendicoes describes running shelters, mobile clinics and a rehoming programme across Delhi NCR, with a Defence Colony facility in Delhi and a second site in Gurugram.
their site - Kannan Animal WelfareshelterAdoptionRescueSterilisation
Their site says they care for 256 resident animals plus more than 200 street animals daily, running rescue, medical treatment, spay and neuter work and adoption from Kapashera.
their site - Red Paws RescuerescueAdoptionRescueSterilisation
Their site describes rescuing street puppies and injured animals by ambulance, running a rehoming programme, and working area by area on spay, neuter and vaccination in Delhi.
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What the list shows for Delhi NCR
4 of 4 state that they rehome animals. 4 also do rescue work, which means they are the number to ring about an animal on the street rather than only about adopting one. 4 run sterilisation alongside it. They are a mix of shelter, rescue, and those are genuinely different operations rather than different words for the same thing.
Your first fortnight in Delhi NCR
Three things are worth booking in the first fortnight, and none of them is the one people usually rush to buy. Delhi NCR makes all three straightforward.
- A vet in the first week, before anything is wrong. We list 5 after hours options in Delhi NCR, of which 2 state round the clock cover. Book it before anything is wrong. A first visit that is not an emergency is worth more than any amount of reading.
- Sterilisation, if it has not already been done. We list 5 low cost or subsidised providers in Delhi NCR, and several run free programmes for street animals that will also take an owned pet.
- An enzymatic cleaner rather than phenyl. Ordinary Indian floor cleaners leave the ammonia note a dog reads as an invitation to use the same spot again. It matters more with a rescue than with a puppy, because a dog that has lived outdoors has no reason to think your floor is different from any other ground.
An Indie who has come off the street is usually already toilet trained, to dust and mud rather than to tile. The first fortnight is about showing them where that surface now lives indoors, not about training a dog from nothing.
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